Don't travel to conferences. Waste of time, money and other resources. Far better to use discussion groups, forums, webinars, email, etc. Physical conferences are dinosaurs. Most have died off. Some just don't know they're zombies but will soon fall apart. This is particularly true for tech conferences. We don't need to be in a place to communicate and techies know that better than anyone.

What is particularly obscene is the conferences by politicos and ecos to solve world hunger, solve pollution, solve global warming, etc. They jet around the world polluting all the way, eat huge fancy meals and declare what the rest of us should do to fix things. Hypocrites.

Sometimes people on this site seem to have an instinctual fan-boy reflex that by-passes rational thought. Even a small amount of thought would point out:

-The Sony eReaders will die eventually - Bye-bye books for most people who aren't sophisticated enough to transfer to other formats and devices.
-DRM will prevent a lot of people, the majority of people, from accessing their documents. bye-bye books!

It would be really nice if fan-boys or stooges and plants for Sony didn't spread misinformation.

For three hours.

This is the reason not to buy eBooks. Bye-bye library collection. Bother.

"With a 3-hour battery life, the exoskeleton allows users to walk at a normal pace and, in its prototype form, it can lift objects with a mass of up to 30 kilograms."

Wow. Color me very unimpressed so far. My biological battery lasts 48 hours (extreme) and lets me lift about 120 Kg fully and regularly as well as a lot more occasionally. I can also run.

Seriously though, while this is not "Super Strength" as the headline claims it is an interesting advancement. What we need next is a "Robot Suit that gives Editors Super Human Writing Powers" so they can actually write headlines.

It is rather odd for them to try and tax people for talking about them, which is what this amounts to being. Even worse, they are taxing the people who are polite enough to provide a referential link back that would allow the reader to go to the source which then enables the source to earn something be it reputation, selling something or serving ad copy up which is how newspapers traditionally paid for their paper and ink.

Myself, I love being linked to. Please, link away because that's how the love is spread and the web grows.

Yeah, wannabees... Back in my day we had to mine the sand to get the silicone and arsenic for fabricating our own IC chips in discrete logic sets like 555, 556, NAND, and more from whence we built the super duper hoola hoop pooper scooper computers of yesteryear that still control your dreaded tax and social security administration system. Bow down, lower, lower, before the immense power of discrete logic chips! Peons, heads to the floor!

Now I'll be happy if I can get this MacBook Pro to reboot...

I would like to suggest that Google forget the European regulators. That solves the problem.

The Europeans have not right to hide information from the world nor do they have any right to determine how things are happening outside their countries. Google should simply refuse to 'forget'. At the very least 'forgetting' should only be for requests within the European dimwits's borders. The rest of the world should remember, remember...

Did you ever seriously doubt that the CIA was lying? They are paid to do this sort of work. Yes, yes, it says international and all that goody stuff in the contract but that is just for show. To feel safe the government is going to violate. Violate what? Everything. Including you and itself.

What if one of the users is a computer AI. It takes over the body of the other by providing those stimulations that force the user to move their body. Now the computer has a body. Rather than a simulation it is possession and possession is 9/10ths of the law...

I've never, ever heard someone ask for a slideout keyboard on their phone. Mechanical buttons are just one more thing to break down. The touch screens are much more reliable. If you really want a keyboard, just use a bluetooth keyboard. I do have one of those which is nice for writing long documents but not something I want all the time, not even 0.1% of the time.

Nice but I need more range. 800 miles would be ideal. Alternatively I need a 10 minute charge time and 300 miles. This would be for a light delivery truck. There are a lot of light delivery vehicles out there. (How else did you think photos got from the sun to here...)

This is one of many things that causes power outages and loss of communications. In the urban areas, in the cities, people take the stability of the system for granted. Out in rural areas we live with the knowledge that the grid goes down on a regular basis and sometimes stays down for weeks. No power. No phone. No cell phone. No internet. No outside source of water, sewer, emergency services, etc. We make do. We live to survive these events. A solar storm could produce a much more significant event. People in urban areas really need to start being more prepared. The history of stability is very short.

This is the stuff of horror stories. Humans are not intelligent or smart enough to know how to do this. The consequences are immense and terrible.

Read No Blade of Grass / The Death of Grass for a not so fun treaties on this topic.

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No Advertising does not power the Internet. Bogus assertion to begin the article. The internet ran fine before the ads. It would run fine without them. Advertising is one aspect of the internet. It does not power the internet in any way, shape or form.